A rectangle moving through the tangled web of city traffic: this is the image which inspired Mario and Sandro Vernacchia, Director and Chief Designer of the Transport Division of the Turin-based company Tesco in their [...]
Colour, transparency, as well as a great deal of black and white, revisitations of classic models and sophisticated decorations: the latest proof of the closing gap between design and fashion. These were the main trends [...]
In 2003 Fiat Auto was still 979 million euros in the red. So what’s the way out of that quagmire? Design, of course. Today a wind of change is blowing through the bodyshops and the [...]
After years of aggressively shaped, violently coloured domestic appliances, the tide seems to have turned, as if to underline the value of the home as a haven, a tranquillising place where you want to surround [...]
"The way we build our cars is absolutely fundamental to the way they look". That statement by Chris Bangle, the BMW Director of Design, leads Robert Cumberford to think about modern manufacturing methods in the [...]
This issue's cover story is devoted to Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro, the creators of two new concept cars unveiled at the 2004 Geneva show: the Alfa Romeo Visconti and the Toyota Alessandro Volta. Fulvio Cinti [...]
"The home of great ideas", shrieked the posters and the press releases for the spring edition of the Macef international homeware exhibition in Milan. This was the first show since last autumn's relaunch, which was [...]
Why do so many car designers and manufacturers insist on revamping more or less successful models from the past, when they could be inventing something new? That is the question considered in Robert Cumberford's Opinion [...]
Espresso machines, artefacts that are exquisitely Italian in function and in design and the star designers who transformed them into works of art. Alberto Bassi reports on key moments in their history, as well as [...]
The Tokyo Motor Show always produces a tidal wave of extravagance and exaggeration, but this year's seems to suggest a change of mood that may have been around for some time. Some of the Tokyo [...]